John Osborn (abt. 1605 - aft. 1663)

Born about 1605 in England

Descendants

Died after 1663 after about age 58 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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John Osborn migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 246) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Note: Please don't confuse this profile with John Osborne-2362 who was born at Crewkerne on 27 Oct 1686 and died in Windsor, Connecticut.

Biography

John Osborn of Braintree and Weymouth

John Osborn migrated to New England, arriving at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony by 1639. His parents and origins are unknown.^[1]He probably lived in Weymouth at least from 1639 to 1663. In the first division of land he had four acres then in the second division of December 14, 1663 he was granted an additional twelve acres.^[2]

The name of John Osborn's wife was probably Mary _____ as Robert Charles Anderson in "The Great Migration Directory..." lists Mary Osborn directly after John Osborn and he states, ("Probably wife of John Osborn.")^[1]

Children of John and Mary Osborn

1. John Osborn who was born at Weymouth on February 2, 1639.^[2][3]
2. Mary Osborn who was married in Boston on May 7, 1659 to John Ross. She is called "daughter of John Osborn of Weymouth" in the record.^[2]
3. Matthew Osborne died 3^o 1641 in Braintree.^[4]May, 1641.^[2]
4. Ephraim Osborn who was born at Weymouth on August 11, 1657.^[2]Married Jane Matson on October 21, 1697 at Cambridge. He died August 26, 1734 at the age of 78 years. Children: Sarah, Abigail, Mary, Jane, Ephraim, Thomas.^[5]
5. Patience Osborne, married Joseph Aldrich February 26, 1662. They moved to Rhode Island where she died in 1705.^[6]

Raymon Meyers Tingley adds the following children in "Some Ancestryal Lines:"^[7]

1. Martha born April 6, 1638 at Weymouth and died May, 1641 at Weymouth.
2. William born April 15, 1645 at Weymouth. m. Hannah daut. of Capt John Burton of Salem, Massachusetts.
3. Walter born June 18, 1648 at Weymouth, d. Nov. 11, 1660 at Weymouth.
4. Samuel born May 1, 1651 at Weymouth, died Nov. 12, 1660 at Weymouth.
5. Elizabeth born Aug. 7, 1654 at Weymouth.

Evidently John and Mary Osborn did have an additional child, a girl, since on September 19, 1637 at the Quarter Court held at Boston, "Mary Osborne, the wife of _____ Osborne, being indited about the death of her daughter, found the byll ignoramus." A marginal note says, "Mary Osborn acq^d."^[8]

Mary, wife of John Osborn was brought before the Quarter Court again on July 29, 1641 where she was accused "for her grosse miscarriage in giveing her husband quick silver and other abuses." She was "censured to bee severely whiped."^[8]

Death

Died: After 1663.^{[citation needed]}

Date last known living.'

Note: Tingley Error: He did not die 27 October 1686 - that is the death date of a different John Osborn.

Research Notes

• Torrey's New England Marriages gives surname of Mary [?KNIGHT] by 1639(40?), ?31 Mar 1637?; Weymouth; and cites Snow-Estes 2:101; Tingley-Meyers 12, 189, 261; Charlestown 716; Reynolds 31:128.^[9]
• Raymon Meyers Tingley in "Some Ancestral Lines" says John Osborne married in England to Mary the daughter of Walter Knight of Salem.^[7] However, Anderson in his review of Walter Knight of Salem could not identify the children nor the wives of Walter Knight of Salem.^[10]
• George Walter Chamberlain in "History of Weymouth" conjectures that Matthew Osborne (who was apprentice to John Reade of Weymouth on May 3, 1637 then had his indenture transferred to John Doane of New Plymouth on September 14, 1637), was John Osborn's brother.^[2]
• For an article about Quicksilver go here:[1]
• I looked in the published Weymouth Vital Records and could not find any of the birth dates for the additional children included in Tingley-Meyers Cole-12288 15:48, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
• HE lived in Braintree and Weyworth Massachusetts between the late 1630's through the 1650's. ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Robert Charles Anderson. "The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640." New England Historic and Genealogical Society. Boston, Massachusetts (2015) p. 247.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Volumes Three and Four, Genealogy of Weymouth Families (Weymouth 1923; rpt. Baltimore 1984, 2 volumes in 1) 4:452 link
3. ↑ Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.) Vol. 5, p. 28.subscriber$
4. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) "Records of Boston" Vol. 3, p.247.subscription
5. ↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman. "Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1629-1818" K-Z. David Clapp & Son, Boston (1879). p. 716.see at archive.org
6. ↑ Nora E. Snow. "The Snow-Estes Ancestry" Hillburn, New York. (1939) Vol. 2 (The Estes Family), p. 101.see at hathitrust.org
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Raymon Meyers Tingley. "Some Ancestral Lines" The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc. Rutland, Vermont (1935) p. 261.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062498829&view=1up&seq=293 see at hathitrust.org
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686" Boston, MA (1853-1854) Vol. 1, pp 202 & 334.see at archive.org
9. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 2, p. 1116.subscription
10. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, "Walter Knight" in Great Migration Begins 2:1139-42
11. ↑ Charles Gilmore and Descendants by William G. and Sara Belle Shannon, published 1976

See also:

• "The Genealogist", Volume 25pg 263: list of licenses to pass from England "beyond the seas". The list contains Thomas, John and Henry Osborne, sons of Sir Peter Osborne of Kent. They traveled with their tutor John Rosse on march 22, 1933. Their father Sir Peter Osborne of Kent was the keeper of the Privy purse of the King.

• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
• Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
• Osborne Origins, "John OSBORN-11238" (cites vital records, notably of Weymouth, Mass.; note also comments about John's children)
• "Massachusetts Town Births Index, ca. 1630-1905", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45Y-XBY : 22 October 2020), John Osborne in entry for Ephraim Osborne, 1657.